Following is the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 73rd Independence Day.
Budget proposals have set four goals to transform Indian Railways.
Defying prohibitory orders, protests were held in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and several other cities. Protesters, mostly students and activists, were detained on a large scale in national capital and other places.
Following her spat, 'Aunty National' Irani took to Facebook to speak out against her detractors. Here's the Facebook post in response to her critics which Rediff.com represents verbatim:
Opposition on Monday picked holes in various government decisions like demonetisation and surgical strikes as well as allocation of funds for MNREGA, agriculture sector and Scheduled Castes, saying it has failed on all fronts despite which it is trying to "fool" the people.
As the NDA government completes two years in office, there are more questions on Swarupa Dutt's mind than answers.
Patients from any part of the country will soon need to travel no more than three hours for treatment of the kind available in large metros.
Indeed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who as Gujarat chief minister was considered close to certain business groups and industrialists, has hardly been seen with any Indian business head.
'We cannot let this country be a place where the poor pay to shit.' 'That is inhuman and unacceptable.'
Secretary general of CBCI Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas on what he doesn't like about the new education policy.
